HEAD COACH: Blaine Taylor (Montana '81)
* Top Assistant at Stanford the last three years
* 142-65 at Montana (1991-1998) - five 20+ win seasons.
* 384-156 in 18 years as an assistant and head coach
* 1992 Montana team was 27-4
* 1992 National Rookie Coach of the Year
* 1992 Big Sky Coach of the Year

2002 Sixth 2001 Five 2000 Five
1999 Two 1998 Four 1997 One
1996 Two 1995 One 1994 One
1993 Two 1992 Four

THIS DAY IN ODU HISTORY
March 2, 1977, ODU defeats Georgetown, 80-58 in the ECAC South Finals.
Freshman All-American Ronnie Valentine scored 36 and ODU's first Div. I All-
American Wilson Washington scored 18 points and hauled in 11 rebounds.

March 3, 1997- Two-time CAA Player of the Year, Odell Hodge scored 16 points
and Mike Byers added 14 to lead ODU to a 62-58 overtime win over JMU in the
CAA Championship.

March 4, 1995 - Old Dominion defeated George Mason, 110-94 as Mario Mullen
scored 31 points and David Harvey hauled in ten rebounds....In 1989 Chris Gatling
scored 36 points (23 in the second half and six in overtime), but ODU lost to UAB
in the Sun Belt Semi-Finals, 89-87.

DID YOU KNOW?
The CAA is one of only three Division I Conferences (out of 31) to have all of its
members with at least five league victories. Only one other time in CAA history (1999-2000) have all league members finished the season with at least five conference wins.
The CAA is also one of just three Division I conferences (along with theSEC and Southern) to have all of its members with at least 10 overall victories.

SERIES VS. VCU
ODU leads, 32-29, but the Rams won both games this year.
VCU defeated ODU 79-77 in overtime at ODU, then defeated the
Monarchs in Richmond on Feb. 9, 73-66.

WRIGHT AND MARSH
Rasheed Wright is the only Monarch who has started all 28 games...Ricardo Marsh did not start against Drexel. Marsh now has 888 career points thus far.
Nine different Monarchs have started atleast two games this year.

MARCUS DREWRY
Junior Marcus Drewry (Evanston, IL.) Missed the first half of the season recovering from surgery to repair an unhealed stress fracture in his right foot. Drewry was
born in nearby Portsmouth, VA.. His mother Karen was a Virginia High School League
All-Star. She once scored 68 points in a game, and in 1988 helped Hampton University
win the NCAA Div. II National Championship. She is HU's fourth all-time assist leader
with 352.

GREENE, THE FIRST TO GRADUATE : When Pierre Greene receives his diploma
in May, he will be the first in his family to do so. The Senior guard Pierre Greene was selected to the CAA pre-season men's basketball All-CAA team by the league's head coaches and media in attendance at media day on Oct. 31 in Baltimore, MD. As a team, the Monarchs were picked to finish seventh. He has 911 career points. He scored the
final ODU basket in the the fieldhouse.

WALK-ON'S:
The Monarchs have two walk-ons in sophomore Andreas Themistocleous (Nicosia,
Cyprus) and junior Samir Hickson (Collegeville, Pa.). Themistocoleous appeared in
15 games last year, including a career high seven points against Taylor's Stanford
squad in the Puerto Rico Shootout, and has thus far played in 14 games this season. Hickson got into the Coastal Carolina game.

GLOBAL SPECTRUM TO MANAGE CONSTANT CENTER
Old Dominion University has selected the Philadelphia based firm Global Spectrum
to manage the 8,600 seat Constant Convocation Center, which is slated to open in late fall of 2002. The highly regarded company provides management for public assembly
facilities across the country, most notably the First Union Center, which is home to the
NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, as well as facilities at Temple, South Carolina and Rhode
Island.

CENTER CONSTRUCTION UPDATE:
* General Contractor, S.B. Ballard is ahead of schedule
* Construction is over 55% complete.
* The arena roof long span trusses that will support a four-sided scoreboard
With jumbo-tron video screens on each side have been installed.
* Installation of the sound attenuating arena steal roof decking has begun. This
System will help improve the quality and clarity of the sound system.
* The building is expected to be completely weather tight by March.

CAA PLAYER OF THE WEEKTroy Nance was named CAA Player of the Week on Dec. 17. Ricardo Marsh was named CAA Player of the Week on Feb. 25.

DEFENSE
24 Monarch opponents have shot under 50 percent from the floor.
Virginia Tech was held to .298 shooting, , W&M (twice) .288 , & Hofstra .283
the lowest since ODU held American to .259 shooting in 1996. The Hokies scored 19 points in the first half, the lowest since VMI was held to11 in 1982. ECU shot .333

Hampton, Delaware and Towson & Drexel have shot over 50 percent. The Pirates hit .582 for the game. The Blue Hens hit .522., the Towson Tigers hit .523, and Drexel
hit .532. Three of the last four opponents have shot over 50 percent.

When ODU Does the Following:

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
4-3 1-1 0-4 0-1 0-1 8-4 0-1

Leading at Halftime: 11-5

Tied at Halftime: 0-1

Trailing at Halftime: 2-9

By the Months: 3-4 in December
3-1 in November January :4-5 February :3-5

GREENE MOVING UP THE STEALS LIST
Senior Pierre Greene now has 148 career steals placing him ninth on the ODU all-
time list, six behind Brion Dunlap, and 13 behind George Mason's Rob Rose ('86) for tenth spot all-time in the CAA.

MONARCH ASSISTANTS
Kenny Gattison (ODU'86) Sun Belt Conference All-Decade Team and
League Player of the Year in 1986.
Larry Krystkowiak (Montana '86) Three-Time Big Sky Player of the Year and
Academic All-American. *Both played nine years in the NBA.

CURRENT ALUMNI MONARCHS IN NBA
Mark West ('83) Assistant General Manager with Phoenix Suns
(Played 17 years in the NBA)
Cal Bowdler ('99) In third season with Atlanta Hawks
Current In 39 gams Avg:3.4 ppg/ 2.2 rpg (14 pts at Phila./ 6 rebs vs. MIL.)
Chris Gatling ('91) Now with the Miami Heat.
(NBA All-Star in 1997) current avg in 39 games:6.0 ppg/3.8 rpg
NOTE: Skipper Youngblood ('2000) is playing for Roanoke in the NBA
Developmental league.